This is also where we sometimes get stuck: discipleship in the Bible doesn’t look like Jesus’ friends in the classroom achieving and achieving and learning and learning until they are filled up with good grades and ready to graduate. It doesn’t look like a proficiency exam. In the Bible, it actually looks like the opposite: discipleship looks like people unlearning everything and falling apart.
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What Jesus offers is not the immediate miracles of food and plenty, but a longer path of discipleship. How will we respond?
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…be filled with the Spirit, 19as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, 20giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.—- From Ephesians 5:19-20
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Whoever eats of this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. —- From John 6:51
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Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. John 6:24-35
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This week: the baptism that never happened and other tales of water and washing
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Question: Where is your deserted place, away from the frantic pace?
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‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ Mark 6:31
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Jesus left that place, and came to his hometown… Mark 6:1
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…Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live. Mark 5:23
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…And: "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
-2 Corinthians 6:18
There are no printed prayers or song lyrics available this week. They will return next week :)
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…the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how - from Mark 4:27
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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. -Romans 8:14
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The Holy Spirit = God in the present tense, here and now.
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The forgiven person becomes the forgiving person. The healed person becomes the healing person. And the loved person becomes the loving person.
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“I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” -John 15:11
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“I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit...” -John 15:5
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Our guest pastor for today’s service is Wendell Brown, a friendly and frequent presence in the pews and the pulpit of Bethel Lutheran Church.
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Today our guest pastor is Rev Dr. Marjorie Funk-Pihl from the Southwest California Synod. She is the Assistant to the Bishop for Congregational Mission & Director of Evangelical Mission.
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Today we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with two online worship services: one led by our youth as well as a traditional service.
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